With debt management problems facing consumers across the country, figures from checkmyfile suggest that the number of people unhappy with the service from their mortgage lender has increased by around 20 per cent over the course of the last year.…
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While millions of Brits are facing increasingly difficult debt management problems, one fifth of the 500 single citizens quizzed by Parship.co.uk recently cited these issues as their biggest concern, compared with over a half (52 per cent) of respondents who…
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With millions of British consumers already facing credit card debt, the country’s largest provider of these services could soon be charging a fee of £10 or £20 to customers who never or rarely use their plastic products. “We think this…
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The practice is referred to as ‘purposely hiding what I’m looking for’ (Philfing) and is the most irksome online tactic employed by website owners, according to 64 per cent of respondents to a survey commission by MoreComputers.com. And with debt…
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Many British consumers have been pushed further into the debt management mire by having additional charges levied against them and now banks are trying to deter those who try to claim these fees back, according to Ingrid Gubbay from the…
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Recent research from the independent comparison service found that annual fees are now being levied by one in eight credit card suppliers operating in the UK on one or more of their products. And Money Expert is convinced that the…
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Recent research carried out by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) found that around 35 per cent of prospective homebuyers say they would need to borrow money from their parents before they could afford to get on the property ladder.…
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Figures from Prudential show that around 60 per cent of all work-age female British citizens do not contribute to either a company or personal pension, compared to 46 per cent of their male counterparts. And with debt management problems facing…
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